Powder-ptjpp making



Sept. 1, 1925.

J. DANQUIGNEY POWDER PUFF MAKING Filed Aug. :50, 1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Sept. 1, 192s; 1,551,942

DA NQUIGNEY POWDER PUFF MAKING Filed g- 30 1924 2 Shoots-Sheet 2 Patented Sept. 1, 1925.

A 1,551,942 PATENT OFFICE.

JULIUS DANQUIGNEY, O'F LINDENHURST NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO MAURICE LEVY COMPANY, INC., A CORPORATION 01 NEW YORK.

POWDER-PUFF MA ING.

Application filed August 30, 1924. Serial No. 735,113.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIUs DANQUIGNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lindenhurst, Long Island, in the county of Suffolk and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Powder-Puff Making, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the making of powder puffs, and more particularly to a novel process for that purpose whereby a very considerable saving in labor is effected.

Among the objects of his invention is to provide'a process for t e making of powder pufi's whereby thesame-may be completely sewn in one operation, thus eliminating the finishing necessary after the powder puff in usual course of manufacture has been turned inside out.

. In the present state of the art powder pufi's are made b placing two pieces of velvet or other suitable material with their nap portions in contact or face to face, sewing both pieces around in an arc by ma-'.

chine and leaving a gap between the ends of the stitched line thus forming a pocket adapted to be turned inside out through said gap so as to bring the nap of the velvet upon the outside of the powder puff in the usual manner while at the same time concealing the stitches and the unfinished edges of the velvet within the powder puff itself. The gap or opening aforesaid is then sewn up preferably by hand whereby it is difiicult or tedious if not impossible to so form the stitches as to cause the same to be hidden within the owder puff and between the folds thereof to secure a uniformity of' appearance of said powder puff. My invention eliminates this finishing or second sewing operation whether done by hand or by machine.

Other objects, therefore, of my invention are to providea process wherein the cost of manufacture generally is greatly reduced, and whereby a powder puff of more uniform and pleasing appearance is secured.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and while the inventhe accompanying drawings in which like another way of securing the objects aforesaid. Fig. 4 is an end View showing the powder puff. in course of being turned inside out. Fig. 5 shows the next finishing step. Fig. 6 shows a completed powder puff. Figs. 7 and 8 show diagrammaticviews of a machine for stitching the powder pufi's as shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 9 is a view of a needle used in said. machine.

Referring now more specifically to the drawings, 10 and 10 represent strips or the like of. velvet or other suitable material lying with their nap or pile, portions in contactor face to face. These strips are mounted or held in any suitable manner so as to be secured against movement relative I 1y to each other while a thread 11 is used to sew said strips together at any portion thereof and in a circular path or the like as an initial step in the formation of the powder puff. The stitch used is of the general type which permits the thread todrawn through the fabric as against the iiiual interlocking stitch which does not,

starting point. In the preferred method of using my invention the stitching line'is reinforced at 12 to prevent opening up or looseness thereof as by means of one or moreextra stitches 130! the like, a looseness being permitted in the thread at some point or points along the stitched line spaced from 12. This looseness or excess of thread takes the form of a loop or free portion 14 shown as'being formedwholly at one place and only upon the side of the fabric 10. Or in like manner a plurality of loops 7 other suitable type.

14" may. be formed, of substantially the same slze or varying in size for a purpose to be soon set forth. These loops are turned to lie upon the fabric and preferably within the line, of stitching so as to preclude the possibility of severing thesame when the fabrics are severed as at 15 to form unitary structures for the individual powder puffs. The looseness in the thread" as aforesaid combined with the adaptability of the stitch for permitting the thread to be drawn through the fabric allows the operator to readily draw the pieces of fabric or disks l6 and 17 apart at the region of the looseness of the thread to form an opening or gap by grasping a portion 19 of the disks remote from said opening and drawing the same through so as to reverse the pieces of fabric and cause their nap surfaces to be on the outside of the article, all possibility of any stitches coming loose or opening up being precluded since the thread is continuous all along. If the modification shown in Fig. 3 isused the spreading apart and formation of this opening 18 is accomplished more rapidly.

The operator-then draws up the thread to take out the slack in the stitching and bring said disks against each other through- -out the periphery thereby again' forming a loop at a convenient point, said loop being \then severed, and the powder puff will then appear substantially as shown in Fig. 5 with the loose ends 11 and 11 of the thread projecting from betweenthe folded edges of the disk. The ends are then secured in any suitable manner or tied into a knot 20. This knot becomes drawn intothe stitching line and is thus'concealed within the powder puff. This process is' not confined to any specific machine or device or manner of manufacturing, but iscapable of various modifications to suit the needs of difi'erent manufacturers and the requirements ofthe market as the same vary from time to'time. This process lends itself among other things to hand.- sewing and the like, though. for maximum economy and advantage, the process should be used in connection with a machine which may be of the type shown herein or of any For this purpose it will be observed that 21 is the frame of a machine having a bed or support comprising rollers 22 upon which are tightly mounted fabrics 10 and 10".- in the manner and for the purpose disclosed in connection with Fig. 1. Beds or supports 23 and 23 are supported upon the rollers-24 which runupon tracks 25 formed upon said frame. These bed frames are thus adapted to reciprocate along a fixed path toward and away from said fabrics. Mountedupon the bed frames are clutches 26 and 26 which are adapted to be moved into close proximity to said fabrics, the clutches upon the different sides thereof beingin alinement so as to' be adapted in turn' to grasp a needle 27 having a central eye 28 in order to draw the thread 11 through the fabrics in one direction or in another. The' bed comprising said rollers 22 is movable in a plane at right angles to said path of movement of sald bed frames 23 and 23* Fig. 8 shows the stitching in process of formation in the direction of the arrow a, this being accomplished bycausing the entire fabric to move clutches 26 up to the fabric so as to pass the needle therethro-ugh, the clutches 26* are brought against the fabric and the machine is operated to cause the latter clutches to grip the projecting portions of the needles,

while the clutches 26 release their hold upon the other end portions of the needles, the bed frame 23 being then caused to move away from the fabric thereby causing the threads to be drawn through the same. Whenthis is done frame 23 is moved'back again toward the fabric, which in the meantime is moved as indicated by the arrow 1) into position for the next stitch, the needle and thread being then passed therethrough in' reverse directions, and so on until the stitch-- ing is completed. j

Fig. 7 shows a loop or free portion 14 in process of being formed, this being accomplished by stopping the bed frame 23, which is on the opposite side of the fabric relatively to said loo'p, before'the thread 11 has been drawn all the way through the fabric. To effectively accomplish this purpose, an attachmentis. rovided which may be operated in, any suita' le manner to limit the motion of said bed frame in' any predetermined position as shown in Fig. 7 instead of to the furthest position indicated in dot-dashlines at 24*, in which latter case no loop would be formed but the thread would be drawn being operated automatically or manually as at 35., As shown in the figure, 35 being depressed-by the operator, the head 31 is lowered against the force of the spring 32 to lie in the path ofthe bed frame 23 as the same recedes from the fabric, and thereby to limit the outward movement thereof relatively to said fabric and so to prevent the thread 11 from being drawn entirely through, thus leaving a loop l i. For the formation of the modification shown in Fig. 3 an attachment of a different specific type, but one which is substantially the same in principle, can be employed, said attachment being preferably operated automatically. The machine before described, including the needle illustrated in Fig. 9,'are well known and have been used for many years in em broidering various fabrics, and hence a more detailed explanation thereof is not necessary to fully instruct persons skilled in the art.

The severing of the fabric into individual powder puffs is accomplished upon any suitable machine, and likewise all subsequent operations'may be so accomplished.

My invention is to be understood as embracing all modifications that may be made wherein a loose thread, or a thread having a loose or free portion or portions in combination with a stitch which permits the thread to be moved or drawn in any way through the fabric may be used. Nor is my invention to be limited as to the location or form of said loose or free portion of the thread or the type of stitch used, or the kind or form of powder-puff whereon it is used or other device made up of two similarly formed pieces of fabric stitched together along their margins and subsequently turned.

Variations of form and process will be evident to those skilled in the art, and the modifications. disclosed herein embody the most perfect form of my invention now known to me.

' I claim:

1. As an article of manufacture, a powder puff comprising two pieces of fabric, each said piece of fabric having a nap surface and the said nap surfaces being on the outside of the said article, the edges of the said pieces of fabrics being inturned and being continuously connected by a continuous piece of thread passing through said inturned edges at a plurality of spaced points and forming loop portions intermediate said spaced points, the said thread being movable with respect to the said pieces of fabric at the said spaced points, the said thread being drawn tight and having uniform ten sion throughout, and being retained against release so that the sole connection between said pieces of fabric consists of a single piece of thread under uniform tension.

2. An article of manufacture according to claim 1 in which the said thread is severed at one point thereof and in which the severed ends are held to each other against release.

3. A method of making a powder pufi which consists in forming stitches by passing a thread through spaced points of two pieces of fabric having nap surfaces while the said nap surfaces are held adjacent each other and without interlocking the consecutive loops of thread thus formed so that the said thread can be moved relatively to the said pieces of fabric, connecting the thread portions at the end and at the beginning of the said line of stitches to each other so as to form a continuous and connected line of stitches, reversing the said pieces of fabric at one of the said loops of the thread spaced from the point where the beginning and the end of the said line of stitches are connected to each other, pulling the said thread tight so as to tightly connect the said two pieces of fabric to each other, and then holding the said thread in position so as to prevent the release of the said pieces of fabric.

4. A method according to claim 3 in which the loop of thread at the point where the said pieces of fabric are reversed is severed before the said thread is drawn tight, and in which the severed ends of the thread are knotted to each other toretain the thread in the tight position.

In testimony whereof I atfix my signature.

JULIUS DANQUIGNEY. 

